Deaf Mental Health Care

ISBN-13: 9780415894746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 398 str.

Neil S. Glickman

Opis

This volume presents a state of the art account of the clinical specialty of mental health care of deaf people. Drawing upon some of the leading clinicians, teachers, administrators, and researchers in this field from the US and Great Britain, it addresses critical issues from this specialty such as deaf/hearing cross cultural dynamics as they impact treatment organizations Clinical and interpreting work with deaf persons with widely varying language abilities.

Spis treści

Glickman, Lessons Learned from 23 Years of a Deaf Psychiatric Inpatient Unit. Gournaris, Aubrecht, Deaf/Hearing Cross-Cultural Conflicts and the Creation of Culturally Competent Treatment Programs. Glickman, Crump, Sign Language Dysfluency in some Deaf Persons: Implications for Interpreters and Clinicians Working in Mental Health Settings. Gournaris, Hamerdinger, Williams, Creating a Culturally Affirmative Continuum of Mental Health Services: The Experiences of Three States. Glickman, Heines, Creating Culturally and Clinically Competent Deaf Residential Treatment Programs. Guthmann, Sternfeld, Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery: Adaptations to Best Practices when Working with Culturally Deaf Persons. Bishop, Culturally Affirmative Adaptations to Trauma Treatment with Deaf Children in Residential Settings. Bryce, Leigh, Sheridan, Smith, Training of Mental Health Professionals: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. O’Rourke, Austen, Glickman, Deaf People in the Criminal Justice System: Is a Culturally Affirmative Response Possible or Desirable? Glickman, Pollard, Deaf Mental Health Research: Where We’ve been and Where We Hope to Go.

O autorze

Neil S. Glickman, PhD, is the former Unit Director of the Mental Health Unit for Deaf Persons at Westborough State Hospital in Massachusetts. He currently works as a psychologist with Deaf Services for Advocates, Inc., in Framingham, MA, and consults with Deaf Schools, rehabilitation programs, and mental health programs nationwide.